Hola Y'all

Hola y'all

Welcome to my Tumblr blog!

For those who don't know me; my name is Dexter Kronos and I'm a member of the Rainimator Production Team, but otherwise I'm no-one too spectacular.

I am Australian (Queenslander!!!), pronouns are in the page top, and I am a university student studying a BCFA: Animation (I will be vague about where lmao).

I mainly do renders in Blender or Cinema4D with use of Minecraft Rigs, or generalized artworks on Krita, though I'm still an amateur on the latter. I may eventually do Minecraft Skin commissions via Ko-Fi but for now I'm focused on trying to survive my university workload lmao.

Advanced Warning: I swear. Alot. For other countries' standards. It's just the basic ones though.

Fandoms

My main fandoms of lurking will be the Rainimator (obviously), The Magnus Archives/Protocols & The Mechanisms.

My side interest fandoms (less focused) are Gravity Falls, The Owl House, Amphibia, My Little Pony (G4 & G5), Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail (even though I quit the game lol), Slime Rancher, Twenty One Pilots, The Amazing Digital Circus & Murder Drones.

These will update as time goes on.

Stuff on the Blog

Chiefly, I do artwork of different Eyes belonging to characters. You can find these under the Eye Lady tag (#may as well call me the eye lady)

Secondly, I have a special tag for my own TMA x Own Series AU vein called the Mag-Ruin AU (#Mag-Ruin AU), with the AU centered around grabbing my main work and my current hyperfixation and smashing them together in a believable way. It stars Jonathan Sims (Leitner Hunter/Ouroboros), Martin Blackwood (Beloved of The Eye), "James & the Stoker Twins" (Paranormal P.I's), Simone Dalton (Lachesis' Disciple; OC) and the mysterious "Ani" ("The Mystery from Down Under" [self-proclaimed]; OC). Most of my AO3 fics will be under this tag.

I am also forming a Slime Rancher x TMA AU outside of my best interest set after MAG 200. That one will likely be under The Magnus Ranchers (#The Magnus Ranchers) and will feature Jmart Somewhere-Else-ing into the Slime Rancher world.

Fourthly, there is the Owl John (#Owl Jon) agenda. I am personally under the belief that Jon as a harpy is cool as hell and though moths may fit thematically, I want to experiment.

For any random ass rants I will usually add a tag denoting both the Dexter identity and the Eye Lady moniker (#dexter kronos/eye lady brainwaves) and for irl shenanigns or post "scheduling" I will use an updates tag (#dexter kronos/eye lady updates)

Other Info

I can also be found on Twitter/X and (soon) Instagram, but otherwise your best way to contact me is here or on Discord.

Anyway enough yappin'; enjoy scrolling through the crazy that is doomed to join this page!

What is up with Jonny d'Ville's scar/makeup?

So I'm new to the fandom, and I cannot figure out for the life of me what the hell Jonny D'Ville's lightning marks are. Is it just makeup? Scars? A genetic defect to do with his species? Veins?? I can't find a definitive source (yes I tried the wiki) Please help I'm so lost lmao.

Legally must reblog because I literally designed Nostra myself (the proof is on their wiki page lolol).

Just some doodles I made like months ago lmao

Sorry for Missed Eye Day

I was in a gripping irl game of Among Us in my uni group, and it took 3 weeks for them to figure out I'm an animation student and not a film student 💀

On the upside I know how to work the little sound machine now so yippee I'm not useless 🎉

Eyes coming sometime today :3

Eye Lady Idea Dumps: The Buried = Permanent Ochre Production?

Okay campers

(I need a name for you guys geez louise. Little watchers?)

I forgot to finish the Ivy art and its nearly 1am so instead I repay you with a brain dump.

Rationale

Okay so apparently besides fears of being buried, crushed, suffocated etc, and having ties to Geomancy in general, one of the things The Buried apparently works on is 'being at the centre of everything and it is all pushing down.' (Source: The Buried's wikia page) Not only did this smack me square in the gut and leave me silently questioning my own ideas on what Entity would get me (or more what besides The Eye would get me), but now I have a fun idea;

Buried Avatar Idea

Art student from a prestigious art school who got in on scholarship. They are terrified of getting kicked out if they are not 'good enough', so they pour their heart and soul into every art. Their parents wanted them to go into a 'stable career', and pressure them when they come home to switch degrees (they never do). Their friends are more extroverted and successful compared to them, and the social games are wearing on their soul. They fear one slip up will bring it all crashing down, and they will have to return to their parents and 'let them win'

They have a mental breakdown and drive to a nearby forestry known for its deep caves and dense forests.

The art student encounters The Buried in their trek, and despite their fear, they choose to embrace the suffocating feeling of being trapped within it, Becoming. They emerge from the caves with a renewed love for the natural world, and confidence within themselves that with their newfound power, they can prevent the collapse of their new life. Their powers become focused on ochre pigment, committing a Barbie 'Rapunzel' and make paintings that take them places. These paintings eclipse anyone else's with their beauty and intricacies, gaining them more scholarships and even a place in an art gallery. Unbeknownst to all, they get Buried juice by using these artworks to bring the experience of The Buried to those who gaze upon them for too long, taking them to the cave they Became in an attempt to help others just as stressed as they were break free from their fear... in a sense. Yet, five years later with a successful art career, they struggle with the idea of someone finding out about their new power and destroying all they had worked for, thus drawing the attention of a student from a new graduate from a Law school, and an international student who happens upon their most powerful painting in a museum... ...actually, I kinda like this brain wave. I have an idea-

We're back in @therealandian's ReDeath / Search Through The Stars AU! The OC I've chosen to do for this is Donovan, resident cool guy of Aldara, father of four and husband of a certain redeemed Mechanism! Thanks to Andian themselves for clearing up a few details on eyes and just them in general, they suggested smile wrinkles and freckles and I just dove straight in! I gotta admit I struggled a bit with the wrinkles and definitely need to work on it, but for a first attempt they're okay ^^;;. Eye shape too was a bit of a doozy for me; I was trying to do one of those smiley eyes but I struggle with them if they're not... an animation rig. Donovan is probably one of the two OCs I really loved from Search Through the Stars, alongside his daughter Evan (who I would join the antics of in a heartbeat)! I love how supportive and understanding he is of the situations of Jon and Elias, and just the fact he's a good husband and father overall. If he was real, I'd so want to be his friend... and Karliah's (his wife), she's bloody cool in her own right too. Actually just let me be friends with that whole famil- I might scale back how many character arts I post in a day just due to the fact my uni schedule is rapidly picking up the pace, but rest assured, more arts (and maybe some renders) are soon to come! Our next Eye-focused art will feature a very certain Captain, so stay tuned~

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